East Asia’s economy continues to drive global growth. The region’s success has been powered by its remarkable growth in exports. As a share of GDP, its exports grew from about 20 percent in 1990 to about...

The factory owner’s shipment was stalled again. An official on the border was asking him to redo his export permit because of “mistakes” in the text. The factory owner knew that redoing the form would...

Returning to my Blog after much travel, I recently read that Serbia wants to keep import duties on 453 agriculture and food products from the EU. The argument says this will protect Serbia’s agricultural...

It is 2020. Vasu – a trucker operating between India and Bangladesh – is both contributing to and benefiting from an economic boom. Every morning, he loads up his truck with fabrics, drives the 80 kilometers...

Policy makers under pressure can get preoccupied with the fixation of the moment. For the eurozone, that idée fixe has been “the firewall”. How big is big enough? Who contributes and how? Now that the...